Good morning gardeners. Remembering Veterans Day. Here is a big Thank You to all who have served our Country. Just wondering how many of you gardeners are Veterans?

It is a Chilly 29 F here in East Central Mississippi. I have been trying to keep up with the leaves falling off the trees and I am hating the pine needles more and more everyday. I dont use them in my compost pile because they take to long to break down. I pile them by the roadside and the county comes by once a week and vacuums them up.

I hope all your Fall gardens are prospering.

If you are a gardener or you are just starting out and are in need of advice or just encouragement please feel free to join in and enjoy the friendly discussion. Our Freeper community is full of gardeners, each with varying interests and skill levels from Master Gardener to novice.

Morning to all. The buttercrunch lettuce is ready to pick and the beet greens too. Its in the 30's here in the upstate but sunny and should warm up preety good.

I picked the last of the pablano peppers yesterday and mulched between the raised beds.

FYI- We got the mulch for free. During the spring our local power company contracts out their tree maintenance. We got the name of the company and called and told them they could dump good clean mulch in our yard. It saved them several miles and time to dump it locally.

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posted on 11/11/2011 5:21:43 AM PST
by John 3_19-21
(A lie told over and over again is still just a lie and the one telling it a liar.)

Mega Dittos for remembering and honoring our veterans, and those who are serving now. I have about just a few minutes this AM. I have to go get ready for the Veteran's program at school.

My granddaughter will be presenting a picture of my Dad in uniform displaying debris from the last German U boat sunk in World War II off the coast of New England. His ship was the Moberly, and participated in the action.

It is a cold day here of 28 degrees. Yep we finally got that freeze. Harvested the corn and persimmons and green tomatoes a couple of days ago. Still have some tomatoes under a double row cover. We'll see later how that worked.

Spinach, tomatoes, citrus, and herbs are all doing fine indoors. Winter garden of lettuce etc. is doing fine under row covers for now.

Have a great weekend. God Bless.

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posted on 11/11/2011 5:42:34 AM PST
by greeneyes
(Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)

Just heard it is 27 at ABIA, but is 36 at the house. Lots of frost on the roofs and grass here. I don't think it will do much damage to the gardens. My neighbor had several tomato plants that got nipped when we had the light freeze last week. They were loaded with fruit.

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posted on 11/11/2011 5:45:23 AM PST
by Arrowhead1952
(Dear God, thanks for the rain, but please let it rain more in Texas. Amen.)

I recently moved to a town a little north of Toronto, Canada from Mississippi. The temperature here says its supposed to be 34 F now and to me, it feels cold. Its interesting the temperature here is almost the same as in Austin.

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posted on 11/11/2011 6:05:38 AM PST
by pyx
(Rule#1.The LEFT lies.Rule#2.See Rule#1. IF THE LEFT CONTROLS THE LANGUAGE, IT CONTROLS THE ARGUMENT.)

I’ll give it a try but I have a couple of hundred photos on Fotki I can’t access. They give me a key to create a new password and then that one fails. It’s like their servers are crashing and it has happened 4 times this year.

We are having lovely weather here in Benderville and I am making progress on planting my winter cover crop but the sun feels so good on my old bones that I spend more time sitting then working. We are still getting a few Raspberries and I picked 6 more cucumbers Tuesday. I cut up two pumpkins and saved the seeds which Lady Bender boiled in a heavy salt brine and then roasted in the oven. First batch was slightly burned but the ones yesterday were perfect and I ate them all in in sitting...

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posted on 11/11/2011 8:40:03 AM PST
by tubebender
(She was only a whiskey maker, but I loved her still.)

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